{"id":60799,"date":"2022-11-08T20:26:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-09T04:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/schrier-leads-larkin-in-race-for-8th-congressional-district\/"},"modified":"2022-11-09T10:30:49","modified_gmt":"2022-11-09T18:30:49","slug":"schrier-leads-larkin-in-race-for-8th-congressional-district","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/schrier-leads-larkin-in-race-for-8th-congressional-district\/","title":{"rendered":"Schrier leads Larkin in race for 8th Congressional District"},"content":{"rendered":"

Democrat incumbent Kim Schrier leads Republican challenger Matt Larkin in the closely watched race for Washington’s 8th Congressional District.<\/p>\n

Election results released late Tuesday,<\/a> shortly after ballot boxes closed, show Schrier holding a lead at 52.7% over Larkin in a race at the center of a fight for control of the U.S. House of Representatives.<\/p>\n

It was anyone’s guess which way the race would swing on election night, with federal election experts saying the outcome was a “toss up.<\/a>”<\/p>\n

The large 8th Congressional District is drawn across six counties, including King, Pierce, Snohomish, Chelan, Kittitas and Douglas.<\/p>\n

It is a purple district that had only elected Republicans until Schrier, a pediatrician from Sammamish, flipped the seat with a narrow victory in 2018. In 2020, she won another close contest for a second term.<\/p>\n

But after redrawing the district boundaries alongside the 2020 Census, the district is thought to be more conservative than it was before, providing an opportunity for Republicans to regain control.<\/p>\n

Enter Larkin, of Woodinville, an attorney and co-owner of a Bothell-based manufacturing company whose campaign slogan — “Make Crime Illegal Again” — has garnered him national attention from Fox News.<\/p>\n

Prior to this election, Larkin was best known for challenging Bob Ferguson in an unsuccessful bid for state attorney general in 2020. However, he emerged from a crowded primary field this summer, coming out ahead of arguable Republican front-runner and current King County Councilmember Reagan Dunn.<\/p>\n

According to initial results, Schrier was the overwhelming favorite in King County, carrying 62% of the vote. She performed the worst in Pierce County, where Larkin won 58%.<\/p>\n

Results from tonight are not final, and have the potential to change, as ballots are still being counted across Washington. Election results will be certified later this month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Election 2022 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1015,"featured_media":60800,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60799"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1015"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60799\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60799"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=60799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}